Conflict Negotiation

Negotiation has been extensively discussed in game-theoretic, economic,
and management science literatures for decades. Recent growing interest
in autonomous interacting software agents and their potential application
in areas such as electronic commerce has given increased importance to
automated negotiation. Evidence both from theoretical analysis and from
observations of human interactions suggests that if decision makers can
somehow take into consideration what other agents are thinking and
furthermore learn during their interactions how other agents behave,
their payoff might increase. To enable communication and negotiation among agents, we are using a logical model of the mental states of the agents based on a representation of their beliefs, desires, intentions, and goals.